Keep your
duty to Allah, and obey not the disbelievers and the
hypocrites (i.e., do not follow their
advices).
Verily!
Allah is Ever All Knower, All Wise.
2.
And follow
that which is inspired in you from your Lord.
Verily,
Allah is Well Acquainted with what you do.
3.
And put
your trust in Allah, and Sufficient is Allah as a Wakeel
(Trustee, or Disposer of
affairs).
4.
Allah has
not put for any man two hearts inside his body.
Neither has
He made your wives whom you declare to be like your mothers
backs, your real mothers.
(Az Zihar is the saying of a husband to his
wife, "You are to me like the back of my mother" i.e. You
are unlawful for me to approach.),
nor has He
made your adopted sons your real sons.
That is but
your saying with your mouths.
But Allah
says the truth, and He guides to the
(Right) Way.
5.
Call them
(adopted sons)
by (the names of)
their fathers, that is more just with Allah.
But if you
know not their fathers (names, call them) your
brothers in faith and Mawaleekum
(your freed slaves).
And there
is no sin on you if you make a mistake therein, except in
regard to what your hearts deliberately intend.
And Allah
is Ever Oft Forgiving, Most Merciful.
6.
The Prophet
is closer to the believers than their ownselves, and his
wives are their (believers)
mothers (as regards respect and
marriage).
And blood relations among each other have closer personal
ties in the Decree of Allah (regarding inheritance)
than (the brotherhood of)
the believers and the Muhajiroon
(emigrants from Makkah, etc.),
except that you do kindness to those brothers
(when the Prophet SAW joined them in brotherhood ties).
This has
been written in the (Allah's Book of Divine)
Decrees (AlLauh AlMahfooz)."
7.
And
(remember) when We
took from the Prophets their covenant, and from you (O
Muhammad SAW),
and from Nooh (Noah),
Ibrahim (Abraham),
Moosa (Moses),
and Iesa (Jesus),
son of Maryam (Mary).
We took
from them a strong covenant.
8.
That He may
ask the truthfuls (Allah's Messengers and
His Prophets)
about their truth.
(i.e. the conveyance of
Allah's Message that which they were charged with)
And He has
prepared for the disbelievers a painful torment
(Hell-fire).
9.
O you who
believe!
Remember
Allah's Favour to you, when there came against you hosts,
and We sent against them a wind and forces that you saw not.
(i.e. troops of angels during the battle of
Al Ahzab (the Confederates))
And Allah
is Ever All Seer of what you do.
10.
When they
came upon you from above you and from below you, and when
the eyes grew wild and the hearts reached to the throats,
and you were harbouring doubts about Allah.
11.
There, the
believers were tried and shaken with a mighty shaking.
12.
And when
the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease (of
doubts)
said:
"Allah and
His Messenger (SAW)
promised us nothing but delusions!"
13.
And when a
party of them said: "O people of Yathrib
(AlMadinah)!
There is no stand
(possible)
for you (against the enemy
attack!)
therefore go back!"
And a band
of them ask for permission of the Prophet (
SAW)
saying: "Truly, our homes lie open (to
the enemy)."
And they
lay not open. They but wished to flee.
14.
And if the
enemy had entered from all sides
(of the city),
and they had been exhorted to AlFitnah
(i.e. to renegade from Islam to polytheism)
they would surely have committed it and would have hesitated
thereupon but little.
15.
And indeed
they had already made a covenant with Allah not to turn
their backs, and a covenant with Allah must be answered for.
16.
Say (O
Muhammad SAW to these hypocrites who ask your permission to
run away from you):
"Flight
will not avail you if you flee from death or killing,
and then
you will enjoy no more than a little while!"
17.
Say: "Who
is he who can protect you from Allah if He intends to harm
you, or intends mercy on you?"
And they
will not find, besides Allah, for themselves any Walee
(protector, supporter,
etc.)
or any helper.
18.
Allah
already knows those among you who keep back
(men)
from fighting in Allah's Cause, and those who say to their
brethren "Come here towards us,"
while they
(themselves)
come not to the battle except a little.
19.
Being
miserly towards you (as regards help and aid
in Allah's Cause).
Then when
fear comes, you will see them looking to you, their eyes
revolving like (those of)
one over whom hovers death, but when the fear departs, they
will smite you with sharp tongues, miserly towards
(spending anything in any)
good (and only covetous of
booty and wealth).
Such have
not believed. Therefore Allah makes their deeds fruitless,
and that is ever easy for Allah.
20.
They think
that AlAhzab (the Confederates)
have not yet withdrawn, and if AlAhzab (the
Confederates)
should come (again),
they would wish they were in the deserts
(wandering)
among the Bedouins, seeking news about you
(from a far place);
and if they
(happen)
to be among you, they would not fight but little.
21.
Indeed in
the Messenger of Allah (Muhammad SAW)
you have a good example to follow for him who hopes in
(the Meeting with)
Allah and the Last Day and remembers Allah much.
22.
And when
the believers saw AlAhzab (the Confederates),
they said:
"This is
what Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad SAW)
had promised us, and Allah and His Messenger
(Muhammad SAW)
had spoken the truth, and it only added to their faith and
to their submissiveness (to Allah).
23.
Among the
believers are men who have been true to their covenant with
Allah,
(i.e. they have gone out
for Jihad (holy fighting), and showed not their backs to the
disbelievers)of
them some have fulfilled their obligations
(i.e. have been martyred),
and some of them are still waiting, but they have never
changed (i.e. they never proved
treacherous to their covenant which they concluded with
Allah)
in the least.
24.
That Allah
may reward the men of truth for their truth,
(i.e. for their patience at the
accomplishment of that which they covenanted with Allah)
and punish
the hypocrites if He will or accept their repentance by
turning to them in Mercy.
Verily,
Allah is Oft Forgiving, Most Merciful.
25.
And Allah
drove back those who disbelieved in their rage, they gained
no advantage (booty, etc.).
Allah
sufficed for the believers in the fighting (by
sending against the disbelievers a severe wind and troops of
angels).
And Allah
is Ever All Strong, Almighty.
26.
And those
of the people of the Scripture who backed them (the
disbelievers)
Allah brought them down from their forts and cast terror
into their hearts, (so that)
a group (of them)
you killed, and a group (of them) you made
captives.
27.
And He
caused you to inherit their lands, and their houses, and
their riches, and a land which you had not trodden
(before).
And Allah
is Able to do all things.
28.
O Prophet
(Muhammad SAW)!
Say to your wives:
If you
desire the life of this world, and its glitter, Then come! I
will make a provision for you and set you free in a handsome
manner
(divorce).
29.
But if you
desire Allah and His Messenger, and the home of the
Hereafter, then verily, Allah has prepared for AlMuhsinat
(gooddoers)
amongst you an enormous reward.
30.
O wives of
the Prophet!
Whoever of
you commits an open illegal sexual intercourse, the torment
for her will be doubled, and that is ever easy for Allah.
31.
And
whosoever of you is obedient to Allah and His Messenger SAW
, and does righteous good deeds, We shall give her, her
reward twice over, and We have prepared for her Rizqan
Karima (a noble provision
Paradise).
32.
O wives of
the Prophet! You are not like any other women.
If you keep
your duty (to Allah),
then be not soft in speech, lest he in whose heart is a
disease (of hypocrisy, or evil
desire for adultery, etc.)
should be moved with desire, but speak in an honourable
manner.
33.
And stay in
your houses, and do not display yourselves like that of the
times of ignorance, and perform As-Salat
(Iqamatas Salat),
and give Zakat and obey Allah and His Messenger.
Allah
wishes only to remove ArRijs (evil deeds and sins,
etc.) from you, O
members of the family (of the Prophet SAW),
and to purify you with a thorough purification.
34.
And
remember (O you the members of the
Prophets family, the Graces of your Lord),
that which is recited in your houses of the Verses of Allah
and AlHikmah.
(i.e. Prophets Sunnah legal ways, etc. so
give your thanks to Allah and glorify His Praises for this
Quran and the Sunnah)
Verily,
Allah is Ever Most Courteous, Well Acquainted with all
things.
35.
Verily,
-
the Muslims
(those who submit to Allah in Islam) men and
women,
-
the believers men and women (who
believe in Islamic Monotheism),
-
the men and the women who are obedient (to Allah),
-
the men and women who are truthful (in their
speech and deeds),
-
the men and the women who are patient (in
performing all the duties which Allah has ordered and in
abstaining from all that Allah has forbidden),
-
the men and the women who are humble (before
their Lord Allah),
-
the men and the women who give Sadaqat (i.e. Zakat, and
alms, etc.),
-
the men and the women who observe Saum (fast)(the obligatory
fasting during the month of Ramadan, and the optional
Nawafil fasting),
-
the men and the women who guard their chastity (from illegal
sexual acts)
-
and the men and the women who remember Allah much with their
hearts and tongues (while sitting,
standing, lying, etc. for more than 300 times extra over the
remembrance of Allah during the five compulsory
congregational prayers) or praying extra additional Nawafil
prayers of night in the last part of night, etc.)
Allah has
prepared for them forgiveness and a great reward
(i.e. Paradise).
36.
It is not
for a believer, man or woman, when Allah and His Messenger
have decreed a matter that they should have any option in
their decision.
And whoever
disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he has indeed strayed in a
plain error.
37.
And
(remember)
when you said to him (Zaid bin Harithahthe freed slave of the
Prophet SAW)
on whom Allah has bestowed Grace (by
guiding him to Islam)
and you (O Muhammad SAW too)
have done favour (by manumitting him)
"Keep your wife to yourself, and fear Allah."
But you did
hide in yourself (i.e. what Allah has
already made known to you that He will give her to you in
marriage)
that which Allah will make manifest, you did fear the people
(i.e., Muhammad SAW
married the divorced wife of his manumitted slave)
whereas Allah had a better right that you should fear Him.
So when
Zaid had accomplished his desire from her
(i.e. divorced her),
We gave her to you in marriage, so that (in
future)
there may be no difficulty to the believers in respect of
(the marriage of)
the wives of their adopted sons when the latter have no
desire to keep them (i.e. they have divorced
them).
And Allah's
Command must be fulfilled.
38.
There is no
blame on the Prophet (SAW)
in that which Allah has made legal for him. That has been
Allah's Way with those who have passed away of (the
Prophets of)
old.
And the
Command of Allah is a decree determined.
39.
Those who
convey the Message of Allah and fear Him, and fear none save
Allah. And Sufficient is Allah as a Reckoner.
40.
Muhammad
(SAW)
is not the father of any man among you, but he is the
Messenger of Allah and the last
(end)
of the Prophets. And Allah is Ever All Aware of everything.
41.
O you who
believe! Remember Allah with much remembrance.
42.
And glorify
His Praises morning and afternoon (the
early morning (Fajr) and Asr prayers).
43.
He it is
Who sends Salat (His blessings)
on you, and His angels too (ask Allah to bless and
forgive you),
that He may bring you out from darkness (of
disbelief and polytheism)
into light (of Belief and Islamic
Monotheism).
And He is Ever Most Merciful to the believers.
44.
Their
greeting on the Day they shall meet Him will be "Salam:
Peace (i.e. the angels will say
to them:
Salamu Alaikum)!"
And He has
prepared for them a generous reward (i.e. Paradise).
45.
O Prophet
(Muhammad SAW )!
Verily, We have sent you as witness, and a bearer of glad
tidings, and a warner,
46.
And as one
who invites to Allah (Islamic Monotheism, i.e.
to worship none but Allah (Alone))
by His Leave, and as a lamp spreading light
(through your instructions from the Quran and the Sunnah the
legal ways of the Prophet SAW ).
47.
And
announce to the believers (in the Oneness of Allah
and in His Messenger Muhammad SAW)
the glad tidings, that they will have from Allah a Great
Bounty.
48.
And obey
not the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and harm them not
(till you are ordered).
And put your trust in Allah, and Sufficient is Allah as a
Wakeel (Trustee, or Disposer of
affairs).
49.
O you who
believe! When you marry believing women, and then divorce
them before you have sexual intercourse with them, no Iddah
(divorce prescribed
period, see (V.65:4))
have you to count in respect of them. So give them a
present, and set them free (i.e. divorce),
in a handsome manner.
50.
O Prophet
(Muhammad SAW)!
Verily, We
have made lawful to you your wives, to whom you have paid
their Mahr (bridal money given by the
husband to his wife at the time of marriage),
and those (captives or slaves)
whom your right hand possesses - whom Allah has given to
you, and the daughters of your Amm
(paternal uncles)
and the daughters of your Ammah
(paternal aunts)
and the daughters of your Khal (maternal uncles)
and the daughters of your Khalah
(maternal aunts)
who migrated (from Makkah)
with you, and a believing woman if she offers herself to the
Prophet, and the Prophet wishes to marry her; a privilege
for you only, not for the (rest of)
the believers.
Indeed We
know what We have enjoined upon them about their wives and
those (captives or slaves)
whom their right hands possess, - in order that there should
be no difficulty on you.
And Allah
is Ever Oft Forgiving, Most Merciful.
51.
You (O
Muhammad SAW) can
postpone (the turn of)
whom you will of them (your wives),
and you may receive whom you will.
And
whomsoever you desire of those whom you have set aside
(her turn temporarily),
it is no sin on you (to receive her again),
that is better; that they may be comforted and not grieved,
and may all be pleased with what you give them.
Allah knows
what is in your hearts. And Allah is Ever All-Knowing, Most
Forbearing.
52.
It is not
lawful for you (to marry other)
women after this, nor to change them for other wives even
though their beauty attracts you, except those
(captives or slaves)
whom your right hand possesses.
And Allah
is Ever a Watcher over all things.
53.
O you who
believe!
Enter not
the Prophets houses, except when leave is given to you for a
meal, (and then)
not (so early as)
to wait for its preparation. But when you are invited,
enter, and when you have taken your meal, disperse, without
sitting for a talk.
Verily,
such (behaviour)
annoys the Prophet, and he is shy of
(asking)
you (to go),
but Allah is not shy of (telling you)
the truth.
And when
you ask (his wives) for
anything you want, ask them from behind a screen, that is
purer for your hearts and for their hearts.
And it is
not (right)
for you that you should annoy Allah's Messenger, nor that
you should ever marry his wives after him (his
death).
Verily!
With Allah that shall be an enormity.
54.
Whether you
reveal anything or conceal it, verily, Allah is Ever
AllKnower of everything.
55.
It is no
sin on them (the Prophets wives, if
they appear unveiled) before
their fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their
brothers sons, or the sons of their sisters, or their own
(believing)
women, or their (female)
slaves, and keep your duty to Allah.
Verily,
Allah is Ever All Witness over everything.
56.
Allah sends
His Salat (Graces, Honours,
Blessings, Mercy, etc.)
on the Prophet (Muhammad SAW)
and also His angels too (ask Allah to bless and
forgive him).
O you who
believe! Send your Salat on (ask Allah to bless)
him (Muhammad SAW),
and (you should)
greet
(salute)
him with the Islamic way of greeting
(salutation i.e. AsSalamu Alaikum).
57.
Verily,
those who annoy Allah and His Messenger
(SAW)
Allah has cursed them in this world, and in the Hereafter,
and has
prepared for them a humiliating torment.
58.
And those
who annoy believing men and women undeservedly, bear on
themselves the crime of slander and plain sin.
59.
O Prophet!
Tell your
wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to
draw their cloaks (veils)
all over their bodies (i.e.screen themselves
completely except the eyes or one eye to see the way).
That will
be better, that they should be known (as
free respectable women) so as not
to be annoyed.
And Allah
is Ever Oft Forgiving, Most Merciful.
60.
If the
hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease
(evil desire for adultery, etc.),
and those who spread false news among the people in
AlMadinah, cease not, We shall certainly let you overpower
them, then they will not be able to stay in it as your
neighbours but a little while.
61.
Accursed,
wherever found, they shall be seized and killed with a
(terrible)
slaughter.
62.
That was
the Way of Allah in the case of those who passed away of
old, and you will not find any change in the Way of Allah.
63.
People ask
you concerning the Hour,
say:
"The
knowledge of it is with Allah only.
What do you
know?
It may be
that the Hour is near!"
64.
Verily,
Allah has cursed the disbelievers, and has prepared for them
a flaming Fire (Hell).
65.
Wherein
they will abide for ever,
and they
will find neither a Walee (a protector)
nor a helper.
66.
On the Day
when their faces will be turned over in the Fire, they will
say:
"Oh, would
that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger
(Muhammad SAW)."
67.
And they
will say:
"Our Lord!
Verily, we obeyed our chiefs and our great ones, and they
misled us from the (Right)
Way.
68.
Our Lord!
give them double torment and curse them with a mighty
curse!"
69.
O you who
believe!
Be not like
those who annoyed Moosa (Moses),
but Allah cleared him of that which they alleged, and he was
honourable before Allah.
70.
O you who
believe!
Keep your
duty to Allah and fear Him, and speak
(always)
the truth.
71.
He will
direct you to do righteous good deeds and will forgive you
your sins.
And
whosoever obeys Allah and His Messenger
(SAW)
he has indeed achieved a great achievement.
(i.e. he will be saved from the Hell-fire and
made to enter Paradise)
72.
Truly, We
did offer AlAmanah (the trust or moral
responsibility or honesty and all the duties which Allah has
ordained)
to the heavens and the earth, and the mountains, but they
declined to bear it and were afraid of it
(i.e. afraid of Allah's Torment).
But man
bore it. Verily, he was unjust (to himself)
and ignorant (of its results).
73.
So that
Allah will punish the hypocrites, men and women, and the men
and women who are AlMushrikoon (the polytheists,
idolaters, pagans, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, and
in His Messenger Muhammad SAW ).
And Allah
will pardon (accept the repentance of)
the true believers of the Islamic Monotheism, men and women.